Photoshop Tutorial: Colouring intricate parts of an old photo with gradient maps . Colouring an old photo can take some time, its best to work with as many techniques as you can to get the job done. Such as colouring an old photo with gradient maps. Many people use...
Gimp Versus Photoshop – Removing damage from a soft-focus photo . . For any budding restoration artist, there are tools to help you do it yourself for FREE. What are these? I hear you ask. . Introducing GIMP, it is a free tool that works a lot like the...
Today I just wanted to explore the idea that using a pen and tablet would help speed up your photo restoration work. . . By taking advantage of the sensitivity of the pen you may be able to speed up your workflow and retouch damage out faster, especially over large...
Today I just wanted to show you the differences between drawing curves with a mouse or a tablet and pen. Basically, a pen draws curves much better than a mouse but I’m sure there are some of you out there who disagree? . . I was always a mouse advocate and then...
I just spotted a video on Lynda.com, a very reliable online resource for learning. It describes using the “patch” tool as a useful tool for repairing scratches, tears and damage. . There is no doubt this tool is a great tool. In this case, I feel that...
One of my customers wanted me to share this image of her late mother with you all. The restoration was not the trickiest of restores but was satisfying to complete. Here is the video. The rebuilding of the radiator and sleeve took a while. You can see from the video...
Some more challenging photo restorations of 2011, enjoy watching! Through 2011 it was a busy year for photo restorations fact year on year I take on more work. I have put together a few restorations in this visual montage. Starting with the daguerreotype, a cracked...
When restoring a photo using Photoshop there are so many ways to repair the damage that I thought I would take a typical example of a fold mark or crease and show the ways we can use to repair it. One method we can use for fixing this damage would be to use the...
Sometimes for first-time visitors, my photo restoration blog can be quite daunting. I have made a quick reference video of what I can do, so play the video below and in around a minute or two you’ll know what I’m about! Of course it is not all restorations...
The first in a series of short, basic skills, video tutorials of some of my photo restoration techniques. This should make it easier to see how these photo restoration techniques are done and easier to learn. The first is a video tutorial on the importance of...
When carrying out photo restoration and restoring an old photograph quite often pieces of it need to be patched up and healed or cloned. To do this you may just grab the clone brush and clone over, but care and planning with sections can create a neater and more...
